Vincent Oge

Vincent Oge (1755-6 February 1791) was a quadroon (a quarter black) slaveowner who led the 1790 slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) against France, starting the Haitian Revolution.

Biography
Vincent Oge was born in 1755 in Donton, Saint-Domingue. He was a quadroon, of 3/4 European descent and 1/4 African; therefore, he had an education and became a wealthy slaveowner. In 1789, he was on business in Paris when the French Revolution broke out, and he joined the Society of the Friends of the Blacks and was involved in the revolutionary cause. In October 1790, Oge returned to Saint-Domingue to obtain voting privileges for blacks, and he led a revolution of 300 freedmen alongside Jean-Baptiste Chavannes, but the uprising was crushed and Oge fled to Santo Domingo in Spain (present-day Dominican Republic). Oge was turned over to France, and he was executed with a breaking wheel.